Once you are connected, you'll be on our gateway server bing. Bing is intended as a jumping off point to the rest of the servers that you have at your disposal.

So, if you wanted to let say, do something in matlab, you could go to one of our magmaN servers.

Those servers don't just run magma, but are called magma servers because only certain servers/computers can run magma. They are special in that way. We also install and run programs like matlab, maple and macaulay2. We are happy to accomodate requests for other softwaer to install. Please just email staff@math.wisc.edu.

These connections are only command-line interface (CLI). Command-line linux is much like DOS, if you know DOS. Even if you are not familiar, there's a few good tutorials. A graphical user interface (GUI) is what some people might be more used to. There's much more you can do with a CLI as opposed to a GUI.